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How to use lengthening in a sentence

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The shadows were just barely lengthening and Kristram looked at me in disbelief.
However, the odds are also lengthening to a one in 28,000 chance of any prize as the numbers of winners next month reduces.
Hydrostatic elongation of the tongue involves narrowing of the tongue vertically and consequent lengthening and protraction from the mouth.
They are rather fanatical about lengthening their own lives and fending off death indefinitely.
A certain austerity creeps in from the fino casks, lengthening and refining the oily sweetness.
Repeat this over and over at gradually lengthening intervals until your baby goes to sleep.
Focus on swinging back and through the same amount, lengthening your stroke as the putts get longer.
The patient was advised of the risks of midshaft tibial osteotomy and lengthening, and she declined surgery.
Instead, try short angled casts along the near bank, lengthening each cast to thoroughly search the margins.
Shoulders look strong yet feminine in cap sleeves, while the lengthening effects of a monochromatic look are undeniable.
The premise that the lengthening the fleet, be it the city or mofussil buses, would lessen the pressure on the footboards, has just not worked.
A spokeswoman said the company was working flat out to get repairs fixed which were holding up trains and lengthening journeys.
The letter D develops gradually the uncial form... by lengthening the upper stroke of the bow.
The excavated ground is used for backfilling a low area at the end of the runway for the purpose of lengthening it.
When I turned back to walk up to the house through the lengthening shadows I stopped still in amazement.
I walked downstairs slowly, listening to the lengthening drumbeat slow and pivot.
With average lifespans lengthening, more plan beneficiaries are retiring than dying.
The sky was waning from a light and pale blue to a richer aqua and many of the villages were now emerging from the lengthening shadows.
Therefore, lengthening the notice period would have the effect of making Automodular pay for another employer's unlawful conduct.
Warm water relaxes the cremaster muscle and allows scrotal lengthening.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A player on a slide trombone changes the pitch of the notes by lengthening and shortening the tube while he blows through it.
The vibration being, of course, isochronous, any change of pressure merely produces a shortening or lengthening of the stroke.
And up she went and down she went, shortening and lengthening, swelling and decreasing.
The gherkin a few inches above it defied the eye to detect the swelling and lengthening that were taking place as a man looked on.
In that case his discontent may take itself out in slighting his task and wasting your time and lengthening his bill.
This would tend to their respective perpetuation, and to the constant lengthening of nectaries and probosces.
But the half-crown weekly payments have a habit of lengthening themselves out till the packman has made fifty per cent.
Each branch and branchlet is terminated by a lengthening raceme of flowers.
Only the season's rootlets and leafy shoots are soft and alive and capable of lengthening by cell division.
Its popularity as a place of worship saw it extended in 1901, lengthening the chancel and adding the transepts and vestry.
As spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the lengthening days gave long afternoons for work and play of all sorts.
The more she eluded me, the more I wanted to catch her, and the lengthening shadows of the afternoon bore witness to the futility of my effort.
The light was growing ruddy, and the shadows were lengthening.
But nothing contributes more to produce a clearness of diction that is remote from commonness than the lengthening, contraction, and alteration of words.
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